Scaldweed, Cuscuta grovonii, can prevent an invasive plant from using soil microbes to help invade territory - and the parasite can even become more vicious by using those same microbes against its invasive host.
Tag - parasitic plants
Alun Salt
Vampire plant reduces fungi’s ability to decompose leaf litter
Parasitic plants draw life from their hosts, but now it seems that even after death, some plants have a baleful influence.
Parasitic plants and other botanical “misfits”
Taking a look inside these botanical rebels offers new information to better understand them.
Luiza Teixeira-Costa
Even in juvenile stages, mistletoe can adjust its physiology according to its host
Impact on the tree varied depending on whether it was deciduous or evergreen
Erin Zimmerman
The parasitic plant Cuscuta sets up barriers to some minerals when infecting a host
If the parasitic plant dodder taps its host with a straw, then it's a specialised straw than can filter out some nutrients that the plant isn't using.
Dale Maylea
When a plant loses photosynthesis, what else does it lose?
One of the common features of plants they make their own food. But what happens inside a plant when they stop making their food and eat something else?
Host specificity in parasitic plants – perspectives from mistletoes
Mistletoes are very fascinating parasitic plants. Unlike most common plants, mistletoes grow on the branches of other plants and rely on these “host” plants for water and nutrients. Scientists have been trying to...
AoBPLANTS
Complexities of orchid seedling establishment (Viewpoint)
A better understanding of germination and seedling establishment is needed for the conservation of vulnerable or threatened orchid populations.
botanyone
The positives of parasitic plants(!)
Parasitic plants tend to get a bad press. Unfairly?
Nigel Chaffey
Rate heterogeneity of holoparasitic Balanophora
The substitution rates of chloroplast and mitochondria genes sometimes show tremendous variation in parasitic plants, but it is unclear if this is also true for nuclear protein-coding genes. Su and Hu study six protein...
